This isn’t what I had planned today, but this is too good to pass. Yesterday I saw an interview with Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND). Seems he called our financial crisis from the Senate floor in 1999. Here’s the interview, and then the rest of the post provides additional resources. “Thank you” public record for allowing us [...]
Archive for March, 2009
On Timely Financial Information
Posted in Economics, Politics, tagged Banking, Banking crisis, Bryon Dorgan, Congress, Democrats, Economy, Financial Crisis, Gramm-Leach-Briley, Republicans, TARP on March 31, 2009 | 8 Comments »
On All-Time Reds
Posted in All-Time Teams, Baseball, Cincinnati Reds, Sports, tagged All-time MLB, All-time Reds, Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Reds history, MLB Reds, Reds baseball on March 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
One of the biggest days of the year in Cincinnati is one week away – Opening Day. Although that topic is a post in itself, the official start of the national pastime stimulates a lot of thoughts. Lester’s Legends inspired this post has he is in the early stages of posting his all-time teams for [...]
On the Flintstones and the Elite 8
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Basketball Brackets, Basketball Tournament, Elite 8, Flintstones, Flintstones commercial, Flintstones Theme, NCAA Basketball, Smoking commercial on March 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Who could ever forget people as Ann Margrock, Clark Gravel, Stony Curtis and many others? ABC brought us these (and so much more) in TV’s first animated, adult show – The Flintstones. Over the 166 episodes (1960-1966), producers Hanna-Barbera gave us countless memories.
The original 1960 opening was different than the song many know.
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On Watching Golf
Posted in Golf, Sports, tagged Golf, PGA, PGA Tour, TV Golf, Golf Tournaments, Watching golf on March 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Besides the cold blasts of the wintery months of January and February, I also count on the start of the PGA tour. Not many of the early tournaments really strike my fancy, but how … how could one not enjoy Riviera, the craziness at 16 in Scottsdale, or the beauty and serenity of Pebble Beach.
As [...]
On Economic Shorts
Posted in Economics, Politics, tagged AIG, Bailouts, Budget debt, Democrats, Federal Budget, Government Spending, Partisans, Republicans on March 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »
On the Budget Debt
Basic economics teaches that an important role of government is to stimulate the economy during down times through investment. Although this ideal supports the current approach by the Democratic Congress and President Obama, the fact that the previous administration and a Congress (controlled by both parties during that time) miserably failed to [...]
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